I met an interesting patient today. He works for one of the top consultancies , and he felt that the biggest problem with Indian doctors was that they were so insecure about themselves , that they often end up badmouthing each other. When he went to a physician for treatment, and then to another one to get a second opinion, the first thing the second physician did was to roundly criticise the treatment plan, the prescription and the tests which the first doctor advised.
He felt that doctors seemed to take a lot of perverse pleasure in pulling each other down and perhaps they do this because they are not very confident about themselves. However, they don’t realise the amount of harm they cause when they criticise other doctors. For one thing, you shake the patient’s confidence in the first doctor, but don’t forget, when he loses confidence in one doctor, he tends to lose confidence…
